Main area Children and Young Peoples Services Grade Band 3 Contract Permanent: Term time only Hours
* Part time
* Job share
* Flexible working
* Term time hours
37.5 hours per week (37.5 hours TTO 39 week contract) Job ref 434-CR7107590
Employer Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust Employer type NHS Site Haleacre Unit, Amersham Hospital Town Amersham Salary £24,625 - £25,674 pa pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 19/06/2025 23:59
Band 3
Be part of our BHT family
Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust (BHT) is an integrated provider of acute hospital and community services for people living in Buckinghamshire and the surrounding area.
We care for over half a million patients every year:
* Provide specialist spinal services at our world renowned National Spinal Injuries Centre at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, the birthplace of the Paralympics
* Nationally recognised for urology and skin cancer services
* Regional specialist centre for burns, plastic surgery, dermatology, stroke and cardiac services
* Deliver community services in health centres, schools, patients’ own homes, community hospitals and community hubs.
More than 6,500 people from different nations, cultures and backgrounds work for us.
We would be happy to discuss possible flexible working options. We strive to be a family friendly, inclusive employer.
If you require any assistance in making this application, please contact bht.recruitment@nhs.net or phone 01494 734868.
We pride ourselves in being a great place to work and invite you to join our BHT family.
Job overview
Would you like to work with one of the top performing school aged immunisation team in the South East? Come and join us at Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust.
We are working hard to ensure that all school aged children have access to Immunisations to protect them from vaccine preventable diseases.
This role is community based supporting the clinical team at immunisation sessions. The successful candidate will need to have good communication skills. Be organised and be able to work autonomously as well as part of the team.
The immunisation team administer vaccines in every school in Buckinghamshire and therefore the successful candidate will need to have a full driving licence and access to a car during the day with business insurance
Main duties of the job
· Preparation of equipment and resources prior to the immunisation session, and transporting them to the school. Settingup & packing away afterwards.
· Attend school based immunisations sessions and support immunisation nurses and young people on the day of the immunisation.
· Liaising with school staff on day of immunisation, ensuring young people are brought down to be vaccinated in a timely way.
· Ensuring that valid consent is received from those young people without consent forms. (Self consent using Frazer Guidelines).
· To be aware of the confidential nature of the work.
· Work within Buckinghamshire Safeguarding Children Code of Practice and P rocedures.
· Liaising with partners to ensure vulnerable and home schooled children are offered their scheduled immunisations.
· Contact parents by phone and SMS/Email for catch Up Sessions.
· Assist nursing staff with catch up clinic and manage young people to be vaccinated in waiting area.
· Ensure stock/equipment levels are maintained and additional stock/equipment is ordered when required.
What does Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust offer you?
As part of our BHT family, you’ll benefit from learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.
Alongside NHS benefits of generous annual leave entitlement and pension scheme, you'll have access to NHS discount schemes.
We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.
What do we stand for?
Our vision is to provide outstanding care, support healthy communities and be a great place to work.
Our mission is to provide personal and compassionate care every time.
We are working hard to increase diversity at all levels within the trust. We believe a diverse workforce can have a positive effect on both staff wellbeing and patient outcomes.
We welcome applications from black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ candidates, candidates with disabilities and care-experienced candidates.
We are proud to achieve the Gold award for the Armed Forces Covenant and support applications from the Armed Forces Community. Please contact Pam.Daley@nhs.net (our Armed Forces Covenant Lead) if you would like guidance or assistance with your application.
We make employment decisions by matching our service needs with the skills and experience of candidates, regardless of age, disability, gender, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For a comprehensive list of responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to the Job Description and Person Specification by downloading the JD and PS attachment in the advert.
If you are an internal applicant there is the option for secondment, all applicants must have the endorsement/support of their line manager prior to application.
If you have a disability that makes submitting this online application difficult and would like assistance, please contact us on bht.recruitment@nhs.net quoting the vacancy reference number.
Person specification
EDUCATION, QUALIFICATIONS & TRAINING
* Good literary and numeric skills
* Level (3) NVQ or equivalent
* • Have the ability to undertake training to acquire the skills appropriate for development in the post
SKILLS, ABILITIES & KNOWLEDGE
* Able to work on own or as part of a team
* Previous NHS/Social care /Voluntary organisation experience
* Awareness of diverse cultural issues
* Able to work under own initiative.
* Able to recognise grade responsibilities and can report back to senior level of staff.
* Good interpersonal skills
* Good verbal and written skills
* Able to handle and move equipment.
EXPERIENCE
* Previous NHS/Social care /Voluntary organisation experience
SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES
* Full UK driving licence, use of a car during the day and business insurance
PPE requirements:Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust requires all colleagues to wear appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) in accordance with our infection prevention and control procedures.
COVID-19 and Flu vaccinations remain the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the viruses when working in our healthcare settings. We encourage our staff to be vaccinated when recommended.
Application deadline: This post will close on the closing date stated at midnight, however if we receive a large number of applications or there is a change in circumstance, we may be required to close a job before the advertised date.
Contacting you: We will contact candidates through the email address supplied on their application form. Please make sure you check this regularly.
Application information: If you are offered a job, information will be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records (ESR) system.
Shortlisting: The monitoring and safeguarding sections are not made visible to the shortlisting panel. The safeguarding section may be made visible to the interview panel, dependent on the role being recruited into.
Travel expenses: It is Trust policy that travel expenses for interviews will not be reimbursed.
Smoking: All Trust sites are NO SMOKING. Smoking in all areas of the buildings and premises is prohibited.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Name Samantha Smissen Job title Clinical Lead for School Aged Immunisations Email address samantha.smissen@nhs.net Telephone number 07557564670 Additional information
Tracey Fox Clinch - Immunisation Team Lead 07717 355218
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